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Miriam Nelson

Miriam Nelson

Miriam Lois Frankel was born in Chicago on Sept. 21, 1919, the only child of Daniel Frankel, a salesman who later produced nightclub shows, and Miriam Elizabeth (Bly) Frankel, a seamstress who went on to a show-business wardrobe department career. At 19 she made her Broadway debut, in Sing Out the News (1938), a musical revue, with June Allyson, whose songs included Sing Ho for Private Enterprise. In 1941, two weeks after Pearl Harbor, she married Gene Nelson, a fellow dancer and actor. They moved to Los Angeles, and good luck followed. Having lunch at Paramount one day with a friend, she ran into a New York pal and came home with a seven-year acting-dancing contract. Ms. Nelson’s onscreen appearances included Lady in the Dark (1944), a straight acting role as Edward G. Robinson’s secretary in Double Indemnity (1944) and versatile dance work in Duffy’s Tavern (1945). After the Nelsons divorced in 1956, she took up choreography full time. Her television projects included The Red Skelton Hour, Father Knows Best, The Lucy Show, The Love Boat and Murder, She Wrote. Ms. Nelson’s first credited big-screen choreography was on Blake Edwards’s He Laughed Last (1956), a crime comedy about a chorus girl. Her final screen credit was Out of the Cold, a romantic drama starring Keith Carradine, released on DVD in 2001.

Personal information

Birthday

1922-09-21

Movies and TV shows :

A Golightly Gathering

A Golightly Gathering

2009

0.0

Movie
Breakfast at Tiffany's

Breakfast at Tiffany's

1961

7.7

Movie
Breakfast at Tiffany's: The Making of a Classic

Breakfast at Tiffany's: The Making of a Classic

2006

8.0

Movie
Cover Girl

Cover Girl

1944

6.4

Movie
Darcey Bussell: Looking for Audrey

Darcey Bussell: Looking for Audrey

2014

8.0

Movie
Double Indemnity

Double Indemnity

1944

8.1

Movie
Duffy's Tavern

Duffy's Tavern

1945

6.1

Movie
Hail the Conquering Hero

Hail the Conquering Hero

1944

7.0

Movie
Kitty

Kitty

1945

5.5

Movie
Let's Face It

Let's Face It

1943

4.5

Movie
Masquerade in Mexico

Masquerade in Mexico

1945

5.4

Movie
poster

The Lucy Show

1962

7.1

TV
The Two Lives of Carol Letner

The Two Lives of Carol Letner

1981

0.0

Movie